Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1887-02-23
Farm Notes.


Cows need light, not only for their
own health AMI comfort, but because
good butter cannot be made from the
milk OF COWS kept in dark stables.
Air, light, cleanliness and warmth are
four essentials of COW stable where
cows are kept for profit.
.PKoF. FORBES says that at least
70 per cent. of the apples now de-
stroyed or injured by the coddling
moth may be saved to ripening by one
or more sprayings with Paris green,
made in early spring, while the fruit is
not larger than hazelnut.
AN excellent mixture of hay for all
classes of stock is one-third clover hay
with timothy and red top, which is
much better than either one alone,
as the mixture is more complete in
food elements. It should be fed with
an allowance of ground grain also.
The farmers of South Carolina have
concluded that they can no longer raise
rice with profit. 1t is very difficult to
obtain reliable labor for the rice fields.
During the last few years several other
cereals have come into use in the place
Of rice, and the demand for it has in
creased.
The Berkshire is black hog, but is
OF pure blood; the black skin comes off
in dressing, leaving clear white which
is generally preferred. For the general
farmer this breed may justly be placed
along with the Poland China at the
head.
THE Lincoln are the largest breed of
sheep in the world, having, in some in
stances, attained a dressed weight of
nearly 400 pounds. They yield g.
beautiful fleece of lustrous wool about
ten inches in length, and weighing from
eight to fifteen pounds. They are not
popular IN this country, because they
require too much care to suit the or
binary farmer.
A CORRESPONDENT Of the Rural New
Yorker says: ST have often noticed
with regret the valuable time wasted
by farmers around the stove in the
village store. In some cases every stove
in the town has g. dozen or more pat
rons who spend nearly all their spare
time hugging it. AS q rule the topics
discussed at these gatherings are un-
profitable, if not altogether damag-
ing"
BLoAT in calves is really an acute
attack of Indigestion, which often
proves fatal almost Immediately.
Taken in time it may be relieved by
teaspoonful each of baking soda and
ground ginger dissolved In g. quarter
pint of boiling water and poured down
the Calls throat. To do this long
necked bottle may be used. Rub the
stomach briskly, and make the calf
move about; if possible, to get rid OF
the wind.
THERE is too much dead.ripe clover
cut. The beginning of harvesting is de-
layed until the blossoms begin to turn
brown, which is the rule with many,
and then comes on wet weather, and
the crop is well nigh spoiled. 1t is one
of the most difficult of all fodder crops
to cure, and very unsafe to try to do
anything with in time of catching
weather. Hence it is very likely to
get thu go-by until it is too ripe to be
of much value as fodder.
A FIELD that yields so or 100 con-
secutive crops of grass, the last as
good and as full as any preceding,
suggests something more than fertility,
and that something is very likely to
be water percolating through the soil,
always accessible by the roots that go
on INCREASINGLY converting into succu-
lence and nutriment that which would
be forever dormant but for the ready
solvent that nature supplies abund.
antly for the uses of every farmer
wise enough to gather and direct it's
flow.